Difficult gifts (Paperback)

The motif of the body is central to Garisch's work – like relationships it breaks/is breaking, it can be dismembered, and mistrusted; it changes – it can leave. It is also a place of sustenance, and offers at least the possibility of transcending grief. It is the images that stay with me: the pungent eroticism in the poem 'The proper use of flowers', or love encountered as a "trout that breathes polluted water".